The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 583 A New Place of Exile

The most terrible thing is that at the end of the bulletin board, the number of fields purchased by the Yuan family in various places in Yuanzhou and the estimated annual harvest are listed. The total is more than 90 tons, and more than 2 stones of brown rice are harvested every year.Even Yuan Xinghuai himself didn't know the number.

Next to the bulletin board, there are small officials arranged by the Propaganda Department, who tirelessly read the words next to the pictures for everyone.The common people looked at the picture and listened to the "story", and from time to time they murmured in low voices, "It turns out that this is what happened. This senior official surnamed Yuan is even better at messing around than our shrew Li."

"That's right, the Mission Office has already said that Huangzhuang's contract is to provide a meal for the poor. These officials' families have nearly a hundred fertile land, and they still make irresponsible remarks about the contract for the common people!"

"Hmph, it's not that they are afraid that all the farmers will plant the land in Huangzhuang, and they won't be able to recruit tenants."

"Master Yuan's property is mostly in Yuanzhou Mansion, no wonder he opposes it so hard..."

There are also quite a few people talking about yesterday's court rod, "Hey, did you go to see Master Yuan and those high officials being rode yesterday?"

"Of course I saw it, I was only ten feet away, a pile of white butts, blood and flesh flew all over the place in a moment, it was so miserable."

"Deserves it! This kind of guy should be beaten to death..."

"Shh - you don't want to die, that's all court officials!"

"What are you afraid of!" The speaker poked his neck, but his voice was obviously lowered, "This kind of dog official who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong will sooner or later be defeated by His Royal Highness..." He said with the palm of his hand in a "cut" motion .

After reading Yuan Pengnian's "deeds", the little official of the Xuan Department ordered another large wooden board to be erected. On it was the words and deeds of Li Deshu, Yang Guan and other officials who received the court stick yesterday in the court hall, as well as their actions in various places. The property list is far less detailed than Yuan Du Yushi.

When Zhu Linmi was still in Zhenjiang, she ordered Jin Yiwei to find out the secrets of these officials, and she was ready to "slap them in the face" at any time.Yesterday, a few officials whose detailed information was not found by Jin Yiwei escaped unharmed.

Yuan Xinghuai was terrified, the auxiliary king actually disregarded the court's face, and made public all the actions of the court to the world.No wonder no one came to visit the house for most of the day. It seems that this time father not only received the stick in vain, but his reputation may also be ruined...

He wiped the cold sweat off his brow, and was about to go home to report the news, when he saw a large group of people rushing towards the east of the city, and there were excited shouts, "Let's go, there is a new play at the Xuanjiao Mansion!"

"Let's go, if you slow down, you won't be able to grab a good position."

"Brother, what new play is on?"

"I heard that the play is called "Ting Zhang", but I have never heard of it before."

"Ha, I saw the real guy's court stick yesterday, and today I will listen to the court stick's play again, it's not bad..."

Yuan Xinghuai was in a bad mood, so he hurriedly took a few servants to the east of the city.The big play at the Xuanjiao Mansion had already started, he listened to it from a distance for a while, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning, that play was just about what happened in court yesterday.

"It's over, it's over..." He didn't dare to look any further, and fled back to Yuan Mansion in a daze.

With the drastic change in the court affairs, officials of the "anti-Huangzhuang" faction began to turn against the water, and the impeachment of Yuan Pengnian, Chang Caiwen, Lin Min and others continued to advance to the cabinet, and even Yan Qiheng was involved.

Two days later, as Chang Caiwen and other Yuanzhou government officials couldn't resist the pressure, they confessed Yuan Pengnian's instructions and correspondence to him.Among them, Yuan Pengnian repeatedly ordered the local officials in Yuanzhou to "disturb the Huangzhuang enclosure", "instigate thugs and bandits to threaten the farmers", "hide and destroy the field books" and other illegal actions.

As these "black materials" were put on display on the bulletin board, things immediately became one-sided, and no one dared to speak for Yuan Du Yushi anymore.

Finally, seeing that the "fire" was about to spread to him, Zhu Jizuo had no choice but to cut off his wrists, and impeached more than [-] people including Yuan Pengnian, Li Deshu, and the local officials of Yuanzhou Prefecture.

Zhu Linming unfolded the memorial form handed over by the Ministry of Punishment, which listed 160 four officials, large and small, who had been imprisoned by the Ministry of Punishment——after Yuan Pengnian was uprooted, he had colluded with and instigated people who opposed Huangzhuang They were all confessed, and most of them were local officials in the state capital who had great resistance to Huangzhuang's implementation.

In fact, there are still many people who are waiting to participate at home. Zhu Linming estimates that there will be more than [-] officials involved in the case.He also looked at the suggestions given by the Ministry of Criminal Justice behind each name. Most of them were demoted, and a few were dismissed or exiled. Yuan Pengnian, who committed the most serious crimes, confiscated his family property and was exiled to the southwest.

He smiled slightly, and said softly: "Zhengchou couldn't find an excuse to rectify the administration, so you guys made such a big fight. Since you came to the door yourself, then I won't be polite."

He then brought up a pen and changed all officials with serious cases—such as those who had killed people in the process of threatening farmers, or those who gathered violently to grab land—all into exile with their families.

However, this place of exile is not the Southwest or Qiongzhou and other places in the past, but the overseas "unowned land" discovered by the Navy last time - New Guinea.

The island over there has not yet established a stable stronghold. To survive, not only is the labor intensity extremely high, but it also faces deadly threats such as the climate, the aborigines, and the Orchid people.Therefore, even though the court offered a high salary, few people were willing to go there.At present, the overseas expedition team formed by the Ministry of Industry and the Department of Economics and Commerce has basically completed preparations, and it is time to take these prisoners to sail as a strong labor force.

As for those officials who only followed the instructions of Yuan Pengnian and others and did not cause too much harm, they will all be "dismissed from their posts and never employed."

These people are all from the old-style imperial examinations, and they have been "soaked" in the big dye vat of officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty for a long time, which is a major obstacle for Zhu Linmi's industrialization reform.Taking this opportunity to let them vacate their seats, a large number of people with academic backgrounds can fill the vacancies.

In fact, there will be more than 300 more this time, and Zhu Linmei does not intend to let people fill them all up.He plans to leave at least a hundred or more positions, and wait for the opening of the Ming Dynasty's first imperial examination to distribute them to the new "Geke Jinshi".

It is foreseeable that with these more than 300 educated talents taking up official positions from the central government to the local government, the future industrialization reform will be smoother.At the same time, most of these people with a background in natural science will be transformed into bourgeois upstarts, which will greatly offset the resistance of the landlord class to the progress of Ming industry and capitalism.

Of course, Zhu Linmei also fully considered the possible instability in the political circle of Ming Dynasty after such an "earthquake".So after approving the memorial of the Ministry of Punishment, he immediately wrote a Taoist order and sent it to the Ministry of Households, asking the Department of Parity of the Ministry of Households to gradually increase the price of grain purchased by the imperial court starting from three months later.

Rising food prices can increase the income of those landowners affected by Huangzhuang, allowing them to spend more money to hire labor for farming.More importantly, the bottom farmers will benefit from this and greatly improve their quality of life.

(End of this chapter)